Block-based motion estimation algorithms - a survey

Opto-Electronics Review

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 86-102

  Jakubowski, M ^a   Pastuszak, G ^a  

^a WARSAW UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

motion disparity estimation; multi view video; video compression

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; IMAGE CODING; IMAGE COMPRESSION; VIDEO SIGNAL PROCESSING;

BLOCK-BASED MOTION ESTIMATION; FAST FULL SEARCH; MATCHING CRITERION; MULTIRESOLUTION; MULTIVIEW VIDEO; MULTIVIEW VIDEO CODING;

MOTION ESTIMATION;

EID: 84871966159     PISSN: 12303402     EISSN: 18963757     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/s11772-013-0071-0     Document Type: Article

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